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    So proud of this young hen!

    I’m so proud of this young hen! I don’t have many people to share in my excitement so hopefully a few of you think this is cool. Backstory: I had two hens go broody at the same time. We don’t have a rooster and they would not stop sitting in the nesting boxes. Someone in a local poultry...
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    Nest relocation

    We have a duck laying on a nest and the eggs are due to hatch any day. About a week ago I came out to check on our birds and noticed she moved her nest a couple feet away and there was an egg left on the ground. Is this normal? Is the egg rotten and she can tell? Seems like a lot of work to move...
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    How to handle nests?

    I’m not really sure what my question is here. We have 5 female ducks. They refuse to use their shelter and lay their eggs wherever they please. They just started laying again after a break this winter and we currently have 2 nests in a wooded area of their run. I don’t ever see them lay on the...
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    Hen laying at 10 months

    What are the chances that a hen is laying her first egg at 10 months old? Backstory - we got this Americana from North 40 in April of last year. She has always been super skittish around us. We have another Americana of the same age that we have been getting eggs out of since August. We NEVER...
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    Help ID this chicken

    Please help. I have 4 cream legbars. I was counting chickens this morning and kept counting 5. I then started looking at this one and realized it doesn’t have the fluffy head like my other girls. What is it?Google image search says it is a legbar. We buy all of our chicken breeds in even numbers...
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